February 8, 2006, Wednesday

Crown Princess Masako took in a traditional puppet performance in downtown Tokyo, her first public visit to an artistic production of any kind in the 16 months since she developed what her doctors call a psychological disorder brought on by the st...

February 23, 2005, Wednesday

Crown Princess Masako, who has kept out of the public eye for a year because of stress, promised that she would try to get back to her official duties soon. Issuing a statement on her 41st birthday, the princess said, ''I feel my health is improvi...

December 9, 2004, Thursday

The governing Liberal Democratic Party wants to revise the Constitution to allow a woman to succeed to the throne, according to a draft proposal. The current heir to the throne, Crown Prince Naruhito, and his wife, Princess Masako, have just a dau...

November 18, 2004, Thursday

After almost one month in detention at Narita Airport in Tokyo, Bobby Fischer, the former world chess champion, has been transferred to a longer-term detention center in Ushiku, 40 miles northeast. Mr. Fischer, 61, is fighting a decision to deport...

An article on Saturday about the Japanese monarchy's handling of Princess Masako's depression gave an incorrect affiliation in some copies for Takeshi Hara, a professor specializing in the monarchy who said that in a speech last May ''the crown pr...